Israel Museum. Soon in Tel Aviv
באדיבות מוזיאון ישראל
Art and the city
For first time in its history, Jerusalem's Israel Museum to display exhibition in Tel Aviv
For the first time in its history, Jerusalem's Israel Museum will display an exhibition in Tel Aviv. The exhibit will be part of the Art TLV project, an ambitious artistic event which will be launched on September 27 and will be held for one month.
The exhibition will include modern Israeli and international works of art, which were purchased for the Israel Museum's collections in recent years and have yet to be presented in public.
The display will be presented in the beautiful, reconstructed Bank Leumi building on 25 Yehuda Halevi Street, while other parts of the project will be displayed in the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, the nearby Gan Yaakov and special locations on Nahalat Binyamin Street and Rothschild Boulevard.
"The works of art included the museum's exhibition address the relations between nature and culture, life-altering myths, the personal and collective subconscious and art's power to create illusion and delusion," explained curator Amitai Mendelson, who is in charge of the exhibition together with Talia Amar.
The Art TLV project, which will be held for the first time and feature dozens of artists, seeks to draw international attention to the Israeli art scene and to position the city as an artistic-cultural center in the Mediterranean, alongside the famous biennales of Istanbul and Athens.
The project is being organized by four prominent women in the Israeli art scene: Rivka Saker from the Sotheby's auction house, Yehudit Haviv from the Artis company, Irit Sommer from the Sommer Gallery and Shifra Intrator from Dvir Gallery.
The chief curator is Andrew Renton, one of the world's most important art curators.
